Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the central eastern desert of Egypt

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 323-356

  Tantawy, Abdel Aziz A M ^a  

^a ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Eastern Desert; Egypt; K T boundary; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COCCOLITH; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY;

EGYPT;

BRAARUDOSPHAERA; BRAARUDOSPHAERA BIGELOWII; COCCOLITHUS; CRUCIPLACOLITHUS PRIMUS; MICULA; THORACOSPHAERA; WATZNAUERIA; WATZNAUERIA BARNESAE;

EID: 0037371730     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00135-4     Document Type: Article

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